The Best Books Come From

I Was Sick All The Time, One Exotic Illness After Another, Which Lasted Throughout My Twenties. My Worst Decade. But From The Day The First Book Was Accepted, I Never Got Sick Again. Writing Changed My Life.

Nothing Teaches You As Much About Writing Dialogue As Listening To It.

With "margaret," I Remember Clearly It Was, You Know Because I Did Remember It Clearly. I Was Young. I Was Young In Terms Of Experience And What Did I Know About And I Had An Incredible Memory From My Own Childhood. And So It Never Occurred To Me To Write For Any Other Age Group. And I Thought I'm Going To Write A Book And I'm Going To Tell The Truth.

A Good Writer Is Always A People Watcher.

When I Started To Write, It Was The '70s, And Throughout That Decade, We Didn't Have Any Problems With Book Challenges Or Censorship.